Virtual Power Plant for a Smart Grid: A Technical Feasibility Case Study

Carlos Giron, Shaimaa Omran

Abstract


This paper presents a simulation tool that optimizes the generation output from different renewable energy resources of a virtual power plant (VPP). A real case study of a VPP planned to be installed in Kayathar in India is adopted in this research. The VPP is combined of a 4.4 MW wind farm, a planned solar photovolatic plant, a biogas plant, a biomass plant, and storage. The VPP is connected to the grid, and the optimum scenarios obtained were those that imported zero energy from the grid and utilized the storage system effectively.

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virtual power plant; smart grid; solar photovoltaic; wind energy; renewable energy

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